This is my very first fanfiction! So go easy on me. If you have any ideas please feel free to review, comment, message me, giving me ideas or anything else. So let's get this show on the road.

Disclaimer: I do NOT anything except for my own characters. (Aurora, Delilah, etc.)

~Thanks for reading,

Readingaddict72 a.k.a. Angel

Just letting you know that I'm going back and fixing up old chapters so you will want to go back and read them. I'll tell you if I add something REALLY important in the most recent chapters so you can check back and see what you missed. Thanks everyone and enjoy!*

Chapter One: Just Another Freak

All my life I have been the odd one out, a freak, if you will. No one could understand me, well, except my best friend Delilah. I am 13 and not the most popular girl in school. All of the popular girls were blond, pretty, rich…you get the idea. But no, not me. I was pale, green eyes, and dark, almost black, curly hair. I didn't do cheerleading, I wasn't rich and to top it all off, I was an only child. My parents never understood me, I wasn't even their daughter. I was adopted about…7 times. No family liked me or they had thought I was too weird. I was placed into a foster home when I was 4 years old. All by myself, with no one by my side. Both of my parents had died from some freak incident.

Don't get me wrong, I love my foster parents, with all my heart. But I couldn't really fully treat them like my own parents because it was simple, they weren't. I thought I was pretty ordinary, but until my 13th birthday, things changed. I found out that odd things would always happen around, impossible things. It was almost like magic. Little did I know, it was. So, after the summer I will be attending Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

It was now only a week away from attending my first year at Hogwarts. I would be in year 3, I think. I wasn't quite sure, my thoughts were scattered because today I was getting all the necessary supplies. My nerves were building up and I thought that any second I could just burst. Despite being scared and the nerves I was surprisingly excited. As I walked through Diagon Alley I saw wizards and witches of all sizes, shapes, and colors. Maybe I would fit in after all. It seemed like anyone could feel accepted. I had gotten all of my supplies except my owl. I walked into the shop and found the most perfect animal in the world. The owl was a deep charcoal black color and flecks of brown with piercing green eyes. Just like my own. I purchased her and left the shop. I had plenty of time to kill and I didn't want to go back home, not yet.

I was looking all around, not watching where I was going and ran into someone. Making the person drop their books to the ground.

"I'm SO sorry." I exclaimed loudly. I looked down to see a very cute guy kneeling getting his books. I knelt down too and help gather all of his things.

"I wasn't watching where I was go-"

He cut me off saying, "No it's perfectly fine. You new around here?" he asked, smiling.

I blushed slightly, "That obvious huh?"

"Not really, its just that you didn't look familiar." he was looking at me with piercing blue eyes. Eyes that you could fall deep into. Focus, he probably thinks you're an idiot. Say something!

"Oh, yeah. I went to a muggle school not too long ago. Until I got my…talent?" he laughed at my word choice.

"Well welcome to the magical world of wizardry. I'm Jeremy. I'm going into my third year at Hogwarts."

"Really? Me too! My name's Aurora by the way."

"Nice to meet you Aurora. Are you excited for Hogwarts?"

"Actually, I am. But I'm really nervous."

"Well you have no reason to be nervous, Hogwarts is accepting of anyone. Plus you seem normal enough." I giggled as he chuckled.

"So what house are you in Jeremy?"

"Hufflepuff. But I really wanted to be in Gryffindor."

"Does it matter?"

"Of course it matters! Your house is a representation of you and you want to be happy with the house you get. The people in your house will be almost like your family." I smiled slightly at the thought.

"I wonder what house I'll be in." I mused, thinking intently on what house I could possibly be in.

"Well from just meeting you I think you'll be either a Gryffindor or Ravenclaw or maybe even Hufflepuff. Which would be awesome, just saying," He smiled brightly at me. "But definitely not a Slytherin." He added.

I gave a small smile, "I just want to be in a good house and get through the year."

"You'll be fine, I promise."

"Well then I believe you, but if it all goes wrong I'm blaming everything on you." I said in my most serious tone, teasing.

He chuckled once again; he had a nice laugh I thought. "Well that's only fair." Someone from the side called for him. "Well I gotta get going but I'll see you at school! It was really nice to meet you Aurora."

"You too!" I called after him as he took off, but not before giving me a huge smile then turning to catch up with what I assumed was his friend.

This made me so much happier and less nervous for school. Considering I now knew someone that could help me if I don't make any more friends. Jeremy was really nice; I hope we'll be friends in years to come. I was just praying that this would be a good year. Wishing that I could have decent friends or fit in, at least somewhere. Maybe Hogwarts will be the best thing that has ever happened to me, giving me a place where I truly belong. I concentrated on this thought for a long time, still thinking about it as I went to sleep that night. Pondering all the things that could happen at Hogwarts. But I have a feeling that Hogwarts isn't going to be what I expected, not in the slightest.

A/N: Soooo…what did you think? Did you enjoy it? Is there something I can fix? Let me know. Review please! And remember, this is my first one.

~Readingaddict72

For those of you that already have read this: What do you think? Is it a bit better than the original? Let me know. I'll get workin on the other chapters….*